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<b><font size=+1>Weinan ZHANG&nbsp;</font></b>
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<A HREF="http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/">Department of Computer Science</A><br>
<A HREF="http://www.ucl.ac.uk">University College London</A><br>
Gower Street<br>
London WC1E 6BT<br>
United Kingdom<br>
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href="mailto:w.zhang@cs.ucl.ac.uk">w.zhang@cs.ucl.ac.uk</a><br>
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<h3>Research</h3>
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Currently, I am a first year PhD student supervised by Dr Jun Wang in Media Future Group, Computer Science Department, UCL. 
My research interests include machine learning and its applications in Recommender Systems, 
Internet Advertising, Information Retrieval, and Web Mining.
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Before coming to UCL, I was a research student in APEX Data and Knowledge Management Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. 
I am also a menber of ACM Class in SJTU.

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<h3>Internship</h3> 
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<li>Jul. 2011 - Sep. 2011	Research Intern, Social Software Unit, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, Ireland</li>
<li>Jul. 2010 - Jan. 2011	Research Intern, Internet Economics & Computational Advertising Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China</li>
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<h3>Publications</h3> 
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<li>Qiuxia Lu, Tianqi Chen, <b>Weinan Zhang</b>, Diyi Yang, Yong Yu. Serendipitous Personalized Ranking for Top-N Recommendation. To Appear in the Proceedings of International Conference on Web Intelligence. <b>WI 2012</b>. <b>Best paper nominee.</b></li>
<li>Li Tian, <b>Weinan Zhang</b>, Haofen Wang, Chenyang Wu, Yuan Ni, Feng Cao, Yong Yu. MeDetect: Domain Entity Annotation in Biomedical References Using Linked Open Data. To appear in the Proceedings of PD track of 17th International Semantic Web Conference. <b>ISWC 2012</b>.</li>
<li><b>Weinan Zhang</b>, Li Tian, Xinruo Sun, Haofen Wang, Yong Yu. A Semantic Approach to Recommending Text Advertisements for Images. In the Proceedings of 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. <b>RecSys 2012</b>. (Accept rate: 20.2%)</li>
<li>Diyi Yang, Tianqi Chen, <b>Weinan Zhang</b>, Qiuxia Lu, Yong Yu. Local Implicit Feedback Mining for Music Recommendation. In the Proceedings of 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. <b>RecSys 2012</b>. (Accept rate: 20.2%)</li>
<li><b>Weinan Zhang</b>, Ying Zhang, Bin Gao, Yong Yu, Xiaojie Yuan and Tie-Yan Liu. Joint Optimization of Bid and Budget Allocation in Sponsored Search. In the Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. <b>SIGKDD 2012</b>. (Accept rate: 17.6%)</li>
<li><b>Weinan Zhang</b>, Dingquan Wang, Gui-Rong Xue, and Hongyuan Zha. Advertising Keywords Recommendation for Short-text Web Pages using Wikipedia. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2012, Vol. 3, No. 2. DOI=10.1145/2089094.2089112. <b>ACM TIST</b>.</li>
<li>Bing Cheng, Tianqi Chen, Diyi Yang, <b>Weinan Zhang</b>, Yongqiang Wang, Yong Yu. Feature Based Informative Model for Discriminating Favorite Items from Unrated Ones. In the Proceedings of 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference. Apr. 11-13. Kunming, China. <b>APWeb 2012</b>.</li>
<li>Jiansong Chao, Haofen Wang, Wenlei Zhou, <b>Weinan Zhang</b> and Yong Yu. TuneSensor: A Semantic-Driven Music Recommendation Service For Digital Photo Albums. In the Proceedings of PD track of 16th International Semantic Web Conference. Oct. 23-27. Bonn, Germany. <b>ISWC 2011</b>.</li>
<li>Qiuxia Lu, Diyi Yang, Tianqi Chen, <b>Weinan Zhang</b> and Yong Yu. Informative Household Recommendation with Feature-based Matrix Factorization. In the CAMRa Workshop of 5th Recommender System Conference. Oct. 23-27. Chicago, USA. <b>RecSys 2011</b>.</li>
<li>Tianqi Chen, Zhao Zheng, Qiuxia Lu, Xiao Jiang, Yuqiang Chen, <b>Weinan Zhang</b>, Kailong Chen, Yong Yu, Nathan N. Liu, Bin Cao, Luheng He and Qiang Yang. Informative Ensemble of Multi-Resolution Dynamic Factorization Models. In the <b>KDD-CUP' 11</b> Workshop of 17th ACM SigKDD conference. Aug. 21-24, San Diego, CA, USA.</li>
<li>Wenlei Zhou, Haofen Wang, Jiansong Chao, <b>Weinan Zhang</b> and Yong Yu. LODDO: Using Linked Open Data Description Overlap to Measure Semantic Relatedness Between Named Entities. In the Proceedings of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference. Dec. 2-4, 2011. Hangzhou, China. <b>JIST 2011</b>.</li>
<li>Dingquan Wang,<b>Weinan Zhang</b>, Gui-Rong Xue, and Yong Yu. Deep Classifier for Large Scale Hierarchical Text Classification. Short paper published at First Pascal Challenge on Large Scale Hierarchical Text classification. <b>LSHTC 2009</b>.</li>
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